Short Corners?

[Life with the Lions]

Can be very effective way to get a better angle on the ball in. The cross coming from further out means it just needs a touch to be on target and if the keeper wants it he has to come out through a pack of players.

Exactly what happened regarding Bradshaw’s goal on Saturday!

 

[ParisWall]

When I played for the Chalk Farm Fagotts backs the seventies, we experimented with short corners.

But, the severe slope on the Parliament Hill pitch meant the ball ran immediately into touch, or rolled towards the penalty are.

Unless, it was raining, then the leather-case ball needed the strength of Hercules to move it more than three foot across the quagmire.